gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » uninstall msn http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Completely Uninstall Microsoft Messenger Variantshttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/29/completely-uninstall-microsoft-messenger-variants/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/29/completely-uninstall-microsoft-messenger-variants/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:24:59 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8607 Microsoft Messenger variants, such as MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or Windows Messenger, sometimes cause difficulties during uninstallation throwing error messages such as “Another version of the product is already installed”, “Your computer has a newer version of MSN Messenger than the one you are trying to install”, ““Your computer has a newer version of Windows Live Messenger than the one you are trying to install” or “The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable”.

It can be quite frustrating to discover the root of the problem especially when the user wants a clean uninstall to install a newer version of the product again. Keith over at Techie Buzz discovered the Zap Messenger application which can completely uninstall MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Messenger from a computer system.

It solves all kind of problems that prevent the uninstallation of those products and is not limited to the ones mentioned in the first paragraph. Zap Messenger is a portable application that does require the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0.

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The author is not listing the operating systems the software program is compatible with but it seems that it should run fine on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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